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Written from engagement experience — the reporting and compliance problems that recur across clients, and what actually resolves them.
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IFRS
Applying IFRS in a small finance team
Where IFRS adoption usually stalls, and the minimum policy documentation that keeps it maintainable.
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What it will coverAccounting
Closing the month in five working days
The sequence, the cut-off rules and the reconciliations that make a fast close repeatable.
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What it will coverNGO-MFI
Donor reporting alongside statutory accounts
Running grant-level and entity-level reporting from one ledger without duplicate bookkeeping.
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What it will coverMicrofinance
Portfolio at risk: what the number hides
Ageing, restructuring and write-off policy, and how each changes the reported portfolio quality.
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What it will coverFinance
A cash-flow forecast the board will trust
Short-horizon forecasting built from committed outflows rather than from the budget.
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What it will coverTax & VAT
VAT record-keeping that survives review
Documentation habits that prevent the reconstruction exercise when a review arrives.
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What it will coverAudit
Preparing for external audit without the scramble
The schedules and reconciliations to have ready before fieldwork begins.
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What it will coverRisk
A risk register that gets used
Keeping risk assessment connected to the controls and the board agenda rather than to a spreadsheet.
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What it will coverBusiness
When to outsource the finance function
The point at which outsourced finance costs less and delivers more than the next hire.
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What it will coverTemplates
Practical working documents, free to download once published.
- Budget template Coming soon
- Financial reporting checklist Coming soon
- Internal audit checklist Coming soon
- Risk assessment template Coming soon
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